Sex-selective abortion

the sex: however, within this policy there are some exceptions. It is possible to have two children only if the first child is born with a disability, if parents work in a high risk job, if the couple lives in villages, or if the family is a non- Han, otherwise you are

high curriculum is the sexually education and home economic courses. The courses provide teens with knowledge of encounters with sex, pregnancy, as well as birth control. Thus, stating introducing teens to emergency contraceptives such as plan b would not be considered non-age appropriate. Plan B is an emergency

because their clinics are unsafe, takes taxpayers money who do not support abortion, and uses other resources funded by government money. To defund or fund Planned Parenthood is a very hard and touchy topic, but it both has points to why it

In the late 1970s, the development of prenatal diagnostic technologies announced a first generation of medicalized sex-selective methods. Ultrasound scanning and amniocentesis to detect sex, if followed by sex-selective abortion, however, remains highly controversial... Now, much has changed in the move from first- to second-generation sex-selection technologies such as MicroSort and PGD. (Bhatia) With modern gender selection opportunities available in China, one can only wonder how

China’s One Child policy has been called inhumane, harsh, and unnecessarily cruel considering that other countries have been successful in controlling their population without abducting babies, denying illegal second children an identity or forcing abortions and sterilizations. Since the One-Child Policy has been effective in slowing the growth of China’s population even though it has been heartbreaking to many families, it is important to analyze the effects of the One-Child Policy on the people and

more than half of Indian women not express a preference for sons? What is special about these women and communities, and how can these “positive deviants” be studied as a possible resource for policy design? ANSWER: When questioned about the ideal sex composition of the families, it was clear that Indian women preferred boys over girls. In the following table you will be able to see how it is. I have explained it after the table. Ideal Number Boys Girls 0 7.1% 12.8% 1 33.1% 63.9% 2 59.8% 23.3%

female infants. Church fathers warned against this because they believed that children that were exposed were more likely to be victims of incest and/or become prostitutes. In turn, they warned against having sex with prostitutes because they believed that it may result in a father having sex with one of his own children. However for Christians, as with the Jews, it was considered a criminal act. Female infanticide has been accepted for centuries in many countries, and is more prominent in India

Female infanticide is not easily talked about. Female infanticide and sex-selective abortion in India have been the subject of much attention in recent years. Many people believe that in ancient Indian traditions, female infanticide is to

discrimination is on the decline. Jim Crow laws and the “Separate but equal”slogans have been swept into the dustbin of history. But more covert and insidious forms of racial discrimination have taken root, such as police indiscretion and brutality, selective law enforcement, educational inequality. Arguably, the current problems afflicting black people can all be attributed to residential segregation, brought about by widespread white flight to suburban areas and the abnormally high concentration of

The Ethical Issues of Abortion Abortion is a highly-debated topic of whether it is ethical for a woman to decide to have one. Abortion is any of various surgical methods for deliberately terminating a pregnancy. When we speak of abortion today, we mean induced abortion performed by trained doctors, not including miscarriage (MacKinnon & Fiala, 2015). Some current methods of abortion are morning-after pill, mifepristone, uterine or vacuum aspiration, dilation and curettage, saline solution, prostaglandin